The terminal emulator included in Mac OS X.
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Terminal Problems OS X 10.6.4
I commonly have long terminal commands and whenever I try to use the command history (by pressing the up-arrow) the text formatting becomes all garbled and the cursor appears in the wrong place. At ...
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Open, resize and position Terminal App
Dow anyone have a script that opens a new terminal window, resizes it and then positions the window somewhere specific on the desktop?
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Mac OS X Terminal title incorrectly displaying “Python”
I have my Mac OS X terminal set to display only the active process name. But for some reason when I am at the shell prompt the title displays "Python". But when I type anything at the prompt, it ...
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White flash of screen in Terminal
Apparently I've configured some kind of utility that makes my whole screen flash white whenever my Terminal.app gives a 'bell'. This is not the same as the option "visual bell" on the preference pane ...
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What are the advantages of using xterm over any other terminal emulator?
I've seen a lot of terminal emulators as a programmer - PuTTy, Gnome Terminal, KDE Konsole, Terminal.app, iTerm, etc.
Someone showed me an 'xterm' for the first time today. I've used these other ...
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Mac OS Terminal - keyboard echo breaks after ctrl-c with some applications
The only two applications I've been able to reproduce the issue with are tail and cat. If I tail -f log/development.log or any file for that matter, and press CTRL-C to quit, when I type additional ...
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How do I get a decent work environment in my OS X terminal and the IRB? And how is yours?
How do I get a decent work environment in my OS X terminal and the IRB? And how is yours?
For example: in the screenshot below, mine is on the left and something I would prefer is on the right.
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Mac terminals slow?
I would like to know as a new Mac user if anyone has any idea why scrolling or moving the cursor in the terminal is so slow.
It may be common to Mac apps but I use the terminal more. Even installing ...
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How to get files from Mac OS X desktop to Remote Server?
I typically use an FTP client to get files up to a server. But this time I was given remote access. So I am using Windows Remote Desktop Connection (on a Mac) and I am logged into the server. I see ...
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How to send F9-F12 to curses program running inside Terminal.app?
F9-F12 are used by Mac OS X, and I don't want to get rid of them, I just want to be able to send F9-F12 occasionally to programs inside terminal (mostly F9/F10).
Some programs like mc support ...
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Passing Command Line Args to `open` on Mac
I am using the open command from the Terminal to open an app bundle and would like to pass a command line argument through to the underlying executable.
Is this possible with the open command?
The ...
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Setting permissions on Mac OS X
I am developing a website hosted locally on a Mac and I am having trouble with directory permissions.
I have exhausted my normal options for solving the problem and the remaining solution I can think ...
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When I ssh into my ubuntu server, from Mac OS X, I can't seem to get full window addressing no matter how I what I set TERM to
No matter what the TERM variable is set to, vt-100, xterm, xterm-color the terminal does wierd things, like force a carriage return after 80 characters, and only address the upper left corner of the ...
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How do you get a shell on a Mac?
I have never used a Mac before. I recently went to an Apple store and tried to open a shell to try it out. But, I was not able to open a shell - no shortcut for it, not right-click-menu entry, ...
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Snow Leopard hide scrollbar in terminal?
Is there a way to get rid of the scrollbar in Terminal.app in SN (it worked with earlier versions of OSX, but so far I didn't get it working on 10.6)
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Command line history & tab-completion for sftp in OS X Terminal.app
I use Terminal.app constantly. When connecting via ssh to remote *nix systems, I can continue to use tab to complete command names and arrow-up/down to navigate the command history. However, with sftp ...
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Mac OS X - How to make a new terminal tab open in current tab's location? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Spawn a new terminal window (Mac OS X)?
Hi -
I'm working with the terminal a lot on Mac OS X, and many times use multiple tabs. Each time I open a new tab with Cmd+T, ...
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What's the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal?
When I try to stop something, I use ^C and sometimes ^D in terminal.
What's the difference between the two? Why some program doesn't respond to ^C, but ^D.
Why the Terminal.app just quits when I use ...
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Is it possible to change the transparency of an already open window in Mac OS X?
Specifically, I'd like to change the transparency of an already open Terminal.app window. I know I can change the settings and then open a new window, but I can't figure out how to make an already ...
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OS X terminal app with custom tab names?
Is there any way or free terminal application that would allow me to have custom tab names for each terminal session?
Let's say I am connected to few different servers from my terminal and I want to ...
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On OS X, using Terminal, is there a way to get rid of the scroll bar?
I've been going back and forth a bit between iTerm and Terminal lately. They both have their pros and cons, but at this point I've more or less settled on Terminal. (The reason, if you're curious, ...
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Can I make Terminal.app open different profiles with shortcut like iTerm?
I've been using iTerm for a while, but I switched back to Terminal.app in Snow Leopard due to the Visor plugin.
Most of thing works pretty well after I switched to Terminal.app, except in iTerm, I ...
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Open current Finder folder in Terminal by shortcut in Snow Leopard
I want to use some shortcut in Finder to open current folder in Terminal. I've only found an application, that adds icon to Finder's toolbar.
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How to use standard-style cursor moving in Terminal of Snow Leopard?
I want to use command + arrows to move cursor to the beginning and to the end of line, alt + arrows to move it trough words in Terminal (zsh shell).
Are there ways to do this?
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“-bash: ls: command not found” error in Terminal on Mac. How to correct it?
I edited the .profile file to add a new PATH. I believe I set it wrong such that most commands become unavailable. Since I can't use ls or vi commands to edit .profile again, any idea how I can ...
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Mac Terminal.app: Force '^C' to be printed when editing current prompt, then aborting it
This is the opposite of Prevent “^C” from being printed when aborting editing current prompt.
I'm using Bash. When I'm editing the commandline in Bash, and I hit Control-C to abort the commandline, ...
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Meta key in Terminal.app vs national characters
I'm using Terminal.app, and I'd like to use emacs running inside - either locally, or after sshing to remote server. Problem is, I can't get working Meta modifier.
Namely, if I enable 'Use option as ...
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Mouse cursor in Terminal?
I use Mac OS X Terminal.app. But the answer to this would probably apply to any typical UNIX-ish terminal emulator in a graphical environment.
Question -- what do I do to:
Use my mouse cursor to ...
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How do I recover tab cycling in Terminal.app?
Today I've noticed that Cmd+} has stopped working for me in Snow Leopard's Terminal.app as a shortcut to cycle to the next tab. Cmd+{ still works. I've gone to the Preferences->keyboard shortcuts and ...
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Vmconnect.exe on Windows7
I running Windows Server 2008 R2 w/Hyper-V. The Network properly works and I can access the VM's From a Hyper-V enabled 2008 Machine. No problems there.
BUT...
I want to be able to connect to my ...
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How can you turn off alternate screen in OSX's Terminal.app?
altscreen is evil. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see this page
for visual demonstration.
Problem is, there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it with Terminal.app (under OSX), when you're ...
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Manipulate Mac OS X file icons from Automator or command-line
Is there a way to manipulate icons on an Mac OS X file from either Automator or the terminal?
In my case, I want to remove custom icons (that is, the same as doing 'Get Info' and Edit->Cut on the ...
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Mac OS X Terminal not logging in
I am running Mac OS X version 10.6.3 and when I open the terminal (with terminal.app or iterm) it just hangs on the login process. I've tried restarting, changing the startup command to /bin/bash, and ...
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Colour Issues in OS X Terminal ssh'd to Ubuntu terminal
In the OS X Terminal.app, I'm having some colour issues.
If I am working locally, there are no colours.
If I ssh into my opensolaris machine (using screen inside ssh) there are no colours.
If I ...
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Arrow keys don't work in htop on OS X in Terminal
Not sure when it happened, or what I did (if anything), but my arrow keys don't work in htop anymore to scroll around. They used to though.
You should be able to press up and down to scroll up and ...
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MouseTerm and Terminal.app
I'm trying to get MouseTerm to work with Terminal.app. I'm on Snow Leopard and followed the install instructions promptly (which are, simply, download the .dmg and run the 'Install' file).
When I ...
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Unusual backspace behavior in Mac terminal
I'm trying to figure out how to get SSH sessions to work how I want using the terminal application on Mac OS X.
I'm used to using PuTTY on Windows, where backspace means backspace.
When I press ...
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Is there a away to make a chromeless Terminal on Mac OS X?
Is removing or modifying the chrome-bar (topbar) of an OS X window possible? The window in question is the window from Terminal.app.
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Spawn a new terminal window (Mac OS X)?
I am often working in a process in the Terminal and I've set some variables and used cd and so forth. Then I'd like to open another Terminal window from there. Is there any way to do this?
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How to get Mac OS X Terminal.app and screen/vim scrolling to play nice?
OSX 10.6.3 Terminal.app
Am a pretty dedicated screen user. Terminal.app line buffer and/or scroll does not seem to work for me. That is while in screen anything that goes past the top of the frame ...
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Can I specify double-click selection delimiters in Terminal.app?
In Mac OS X's Terminal.app, I'd like to set my own selection delimiters such that if I have the text foo.bar.baz and double click bar, only bar is selected.
Is this possible and if so how?
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Syntax Highlighting in Terminal for Python?
Is there a way to turn on python syntax highlighting for Terminal.app on Mac OS X?
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How can I free files that are in use by quicklook?
I have a couple pictures I was looking through and deleting stuck in my trash (Mac OS X 10.6 latest) and finder tells me they are in use when I try to delete them.
I looked around online and found ...
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Write an email with attachment with Mail.app from terminal
I would like to start writing an email with Mail.app from Terminal, and add an attachment. Something like this:
macbook:~ me$ /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -s the_subject -to ...
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Select text from Terminal.app using the keyboard in OS X
I like to copy things from the terminal, but I don't like to have to move to the mouse. How do you select text in Terminal.app using the keyboard?
For example, while in Terminal one might like to be ...
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Mac OS X Terminal: mouse support?
Is there a native option (ie. without installing extra soft/package/plugins) to enable mouse support in the Terminal app?
Actually, I'm using a lot vim with the option set mouse=a (activating mouse ...
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Emacs ignores Ctrl+/ keystroke
When I run emacs on an ssh session to a Linux box via Terminal.app, it ignores Ctrl + / key combo (undo). How to stop this?
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Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts for terminal
After googling for some Mac OS X terminal shortcuts, I wanted to find how can I go back characters on a line on the terminal or words or similar. I found ALT + B but it does not work.
Do you know ...
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What's your favorite app alternative for Mac OS X's Terminal.app? [closed]
I've been using Coda recently. It's a great program, but overkill for just a multi session Mac terminal app. Know of a better alternative, especially with a command snippet library function?
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Web page from the terminal
I use Snow Leopard. How I can send a html page to a web browser from Terminal.app?
If I am in $HOME dir, with a file myPage.html, can I view this file in a browser right from Terminal.app?
